Pauline Kael
ABOUT PAULINE KAEL
Feisty film critic for New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. She is widely considered to have reinvented the form of criticism, elevating it to an entire aesthetic of writing.
She attended UC Berkeley to study philosophy, literature, and art.
She has been called the Elvis and the Beatles of film criticism. She regretted not being able to review Vanya on 42nd Street, because it was released after she retired.
Her parents were named Judith and Isaac.
She has been called a great critic by Woody Allen .
